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Are you talking about the Wired piece linked by smartbit ?

If so this seems like an unfair summary given the piece is very long, the first half sings technical praise, the second half laments the challenges faced, and there's one single small paragraph (that I saw) that mentions some Signal users as possible boogymen:

    The company’s aggressive pursuit of growth, coupled with lack of moderation in the app, has already led Signal employees themselves to publicly question whether growth might come from abusive users, such as far-right groups using Signal to organize.
which seems more of a cautionary note rather than a hit piece.


I dont understand how you want to have secure e2e messaging app AND not have fascist (and pedophiles, druglords) in there. Of course they are there.

The whole point of the app is that it cant be moderated because nobody knows the contents.

This must be obvious to anyone using Signal and having atleast remote understand of it.

I think that must have been written by some random commenter who think it works like facebook (aka police honeypot).




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